Word: britain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...increasingly serious. East Berlin's Communist Mayor Friedrich Ebert last week publicly proposed that trade between the two sections of the city be resumed. Behind the scenes, Germans in the Russian zone-apparently including Communists-urged the Soviet military government to come to terms with the U.S. and Britain. One of last week's countless rumors was that Moscow had sent an emissary to Washington to talk over a possible lifting of the siege...
This was the military headquarters of Western Europe. Its head man, Britain's Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery, was the commander in chief of the military forces of the five West European nations who (in the Brussels pact last year) had decided to stand together against aggression. It would in all likelihood serve as the nucleus of the GHQ of the North Atlantic nations' joint forces...
...many ways, Fontainebleau functioned like a real headquarters. Its brisk brass was efficiently sectioned off into Unilion (Montgomery's central command), Uniterre (land command under French General de Lattre de Tassigny), Unimer (sea command under French Vice Admiral Jaujard), and Uniair (air command under Britain's Air Marshal Sir James Robb). The only trouble was that their forces were mostly shadow forces...
...Britain had some 550,000 men under arms, most of them still in training but fairly well equipped. They were scattered, however, from Aldershot to Kuala Lumpur. By next year, London expects to have 347,000 men in the British Isles and continental Europe alone. As for immediately available combat divisions, most guesses were that the United Kingdom had two. The Royal Air Force was relatively strong, with an estimated 6,000 planes...
Died. John Russell Scott, 69, publisher (1905-49) and managing director (1932-47) of Britain's famed liberal daily newspaper, the Manchester Guardian (circ. 160,000); of a heart ailment, in Manchester, England...